Here’s a new way “entitled” fracking fossil fuel companies have gamed the system
for LNG exports, currently to “Free Trade Agreement nations”,
which will probably include India and China if the Trans-Pacific Parternship (TPP) gets approved.
Even without exports, methane pipelines are to sell the
“large amount of natural gas in the U.S.” produced by
“the shale revolution”, which is fracking.
The Sabal Trail pipeline isn’t about any alleged energy need in Florida.
It’s about profits from fracking at the expense of your land.

The Office of Fossil Energy (FE) of the Department of Energy gives
notice that during March 2013, it issued orders granting authority
to import and export natural gas and liquefied natural gas and
vacating prior authority. These orders are summarized in the
attached appendix and may be found on the FE Web site at
http://www.fossil.energy.gov/programs/gasregulation/authorizations/Orders-2012.html.
They are also available for inspection and copying in the Office of
Fossil Energy, Office of Natural Gas Regulatory Activities, Docket
Room 3E-033, Forrestal Building, 1000 Independence Avenue SW.,
Washington, DC 20585, (202) 586-9478. The Docket Room is open
between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday,
except Federal holidays.

FTA Countries that Require National Treatment for Trade in Natural
Gas -As of October 31, 2012, the United States has FTAs that require
national treatment for trade in natural gas with Australia, Bahrain,
Canada, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala,
Honduras, Jordan, Mexico, Morocco, Nicaragua, Oman, Panama, Peru,
Republic of Korea and Singapore. Panama is the most recent country
with which the United States has entered into a FTA that requires
national treatment for trade in natural gas, effective October 31,
2012. Not all countries that have a FTA with the United States
require national treatment for trade in natural gas (i.e. Costa Rica
and Israel). A list of all countries with which the United States
has a FTA can be found at:
http://www.ustr.gov/trade-agreements/free-trade-agreements.

And if the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) gets passed,
as
Spectra Energy’s home-town Houston Ted Poe (R TX-002) is pushing
as chair of the U.S. House
Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade,
even more countries will be “Free Trade Agreement nations”, open for
LNG export, probably including India and China, the two biggest
markets in the world.

The large amount of natural gas in the U.S. is also creating an
impetus for something that was nearly unimaginable ten or fifteen
years ago, LNG export, as opposed to import terminals. This is an
area of significant workload increase for the commission.

And he emphasized how that fracked methane will get to those LNG export terminals:

As you might expect, the shale revolution in both liquids and
natural gas production is having a tremendous impact on the work of
the FERC. We see this in a number of our different jurisdictional
areas, which I will now highlight.

One of the areas where the FERC is seeing an impact on our
operations as a result of these activities is with regard to
pipelines.

As a former state regulator in an energy producing state, I saw
first-hand the importance of pipelines in serving new and expanding
production areas.

There you have it.
Fracking “the shale revolution” has produced a
“large amount of natural gas in the U.S.”
that FERC and DoE are enabling selling for the fossil fuel
companies’ profits.
Selling somewhere, preferably overseas where the prices are higher,
as
T. Boone Pickens told us.

‘The producers have gone out and drilled for the natural gas. They
should be entitled to get the best markets in the world, so let them
have it,”

The Sabal Trail pipeline is not driven by any alleged need
for power in Florida:
it’s all about fracking profits, and don’t be surprised
if that involves exports.
After all, the fossil fuel companies are “entitled”.
Your title to your land?
That’s just a scrap of paper to be swept aside.